Chapter 291: Fierce Battle
The full men behind rushed into the formation through the gap. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info A full man jumped on his horse with a knife in his hand, slashing at the back of a pikeman, pulling out a long gap.
The full soldiers whose horses were stabbed to death by spears also struggled to get up from the ground, screaming and raising their weapons to attack the Ming army on the opposite side.
The thin array was broken through a gap, and a large group of cavalry rushed through the opening, some of which turned around and killed the musketeers and shieldmen, and the other directly to the three rows of pikemen in the rear.
Seeing that the phalanx was broken through, Huang Feng Wujiao drank and danced her spear to kill the full cavalry who rushed into the formation, and a shot was pierced into the leg of a full soldier.
The short man dodged the slash of a full horseman, and with a swing of his spear, the sharp blade of the spear cut off the front legs of the warhorse, and the warhorse ran forward another five or six paces, neighing and falling to the ground with a roar.
"Don't be afraid, let's form a small three-talent formation according to training!" Huang Fengwu shouted loudly as he fought.
Since it was broken into the formation by the enemy, the original phalanx was no longer effective, most of the Ming soldiers were in a state of panic, and the battlefield was full of horses whistling and galloping, and the soldiers waved their weapons to attack the Ming army fiercely with the help of war horses.
Most of the weapons used by the Manchu soldiers were maces, iron axes and other heavy weapons, and the spears of the Ming army were smashed at the slightest collision with them, and then a stick was added, and even if some of the Ming troops wore armor, it would not help.
I have to admit that compared with the soldiers who had just joined the army in Daishan and Zhoushan, the Manchurian soldiers were all real professional soldiers, and their combat power was far from being comparable to that of the Ming army. It is a miracle that the Ming army has not broken and fled until now.
The Zhoushan Daishan soldiers on the battlefield were not ordinary Ming soldiers, for the Daishan soldiers, they had never been defeated since they became an army, and they naturally had a sense of honor in their hearts. Moreover, their families are all in Daishan, and Daishan has strict military law, if they flee in battle, the only way waiting for their family is to be expelled.
And the Zhoushan soldiers did not flee because Huang Fengwu was still fighting, and Huang Fengwu's status among the Zhoushan soldiers was far higher than that of her father Huang Binqing. Huang Fengwu took out the property of the family for military training, which greatly improved the life of many Zhoushan military households, and Huang Fengwu's reputation on weekdays was also very good, and the soldiers of the Zhoushan army were willing to fight for her.
Now that General Huang has not left, how can they flee without permission?
Hearing Huang Fengwu's shout, the panicked Ming army came back to their senses, and hurriedly formed a small three-talent formation in groups of three, protecting the musketeers in the middle.
In just a short period of fighting, more than 100 Ming troops have fallen in pools of blood.
But the three talents were formed, and the situation was immediately different. A group of three pikemen, not afraid of the attack of a single cavalry at all, the full cavalry rode their horses and rushed forward, and three sharp spears stretched out, so that the war horses did not dare to directly collide with the formation. When the soldiers swung their weapons at one of the Ming soldiers, the other two Ming soldiers would stab their sharp spears into the belly of their horses.
The 300 soldiers who charged into the formation were all Manchurian cavalry, and they did not wear heavy armor, most of them wore a pair of ordinary iron armor or leather armor, which could not withstand the spurs of the spears at all. There were more than 100 full soldiers who stayed behind to attack the musketeers and shield bearers, but most of the full horses were stabbed to death by spears, and the full soldiers had to dismount and fight on foot.
In fact, the ability of the Manchurian cavalry to fight on foot is no worse than that of cavalry, and the Manchurians are short and strong, infinitely powerful, and wearing heavy armor, and their combat power is far higher than that of the Ming soldiers. Moreover, all of them are professional soldiers, and the combat skills honed by years of fighting are not comparable to ordinary Ming troops.
Often, the three-talent array composed of three Ming armies can withstand a full army.
A majestic soldier was actually wearing two layers of armor, swung his axe to smash the shaft of the spear pierced into the armor, and roared and slashed at the Ming army on the opposite side, although the spear of the Ming army pierced the double armor, but did not seriously hurt him.
Seeing his fierce and vicious appearance, the Ming army on the opposite side was terrified. The commander of the Ming army, who was holding a shield, hurriedly raised the shield in his hand and faced the giant axe of the full army, but in front of the giant axe, the shield was cut in half like a papier-mâché, revealing the captain's shocked face.
These southerners were really weak, full of soldiers laughing fiercely, swinging their axes and about to start a massacre, but with a "bang" sound, it was the musketeers behind the Sancai formation who opened fire.
At such a close distance, even wearing double armor could not stop it. The soldier looked at the small hole in his chest in disbelief, black blood was flowing out of the hole, and he wanted to kill the pale musketeer in front of him, but he found that the strength of his body was rapidly disappearing, and he could not even lift the axe in his hand now when he could resist a cow. The projectiles that had been fired into him had already ripped his internal organs to shreds.
The Sancai formation formed by three Ming troops can confront a full soldier, but with the addition of a musketeer, it is not a full army that can resist.
After the initial panic, the Ming army in front quickly stabilized and fought with the full army. In the end, the number of the Ming army was much more than that of the full army, and there were more than 100 musketeers left to help, so they did not suffer much loss in the chaotic battle.
Except for the nearly 100 Ming soldiers who died before and after the full army charge at the beginning, there were no more large number of deaths.
At this time, the battlefield was divided into two parts, one part was the broken shield pikemen and musketeers led by Huang Fengwu, and the other part was several rows of pikemen who retreated, and the distance between the two sides was only about twenty paces.
When the broken Ming army and the Manchu soldiers fell into a fight, the retreating Ming army also ushered in their crisis.
The retreating Ming army was a three-row spear formation, numbering more than 1,000 people, which was more than the broken one. However, there were no musketeers and shield-bearers, and their defense was extremely poor.
About half of the full cavalry who broke through the array rushed straight to their array, looking at the iron cavalry full of people galloping, feeling the huge pressure, the soldiers of the Ming army were pale and frightened, the array had been broken through by the full people, and everyone knew that the situation was extremely dangerous.
"Everyone, steady, spear formation!" The main general, Huang Fengwu, was commanding in front, but the retreating Ming army was leaderless. At the moment of crisis, Chen Mingyang, the captain of the Daishan Army, stepped forward and commanded loudly. The guards behind him shouted in unison, passing the order on.
Hearing someone commanding, the Ming army's spearmen suddenly calmed down a lot. Standing still, trying to stand still, he stretched out the spear in his hand. Three rows of pikes, the first straight out, the second pinched on the shoulders of the first pikemen, and the third skewers pointed diagonally into the air.
All the pikemen waited for the full cavalry to charge, but the first thing they waited for was the oncoming locust-like arrows. (To be continued.) )